Quotes from Euripides

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

God helps him who strives hard.

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.